At last month's workshop on writing anxiety and the small steps we can take to get started on breaking through our blocks, an attendee right up front expressed long-held frustrations about the seemingly arbitrary rules that had been sometimes stringently enforced in school. The specific example sparking our tangent conversation was the compulsion to turn … Continue reading Finding the Right Language
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A New You is a Process
If you've used writing as a tool in setting your aspirational goals for this year, then the start of this second month is a great chance to check in on how your processes are developing. Ideally, you're writing at least a little something every day: a shopping or to-do list, maybe a few lines of … Continue reading A New You is a Process
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
We're coming out of the comfortable holiday season to get a little uncomfortable with our new year's goals and and shifting into the pace of a more active business season. Seems like a good time to revisit those comfort words and learn how to even find them. The first step, as we already noted, is … Continue reading Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
Writing a New Year, Making a New You
There's something psychologically powerful about a clear demarcation: a hard line between what was and what is or what you hope will be. The New Year is an invented day (in high dispute around the world), but it gives us a shared indicator of time passing, of a line between the old and new--and a … Continue reading Writing a New Year, Making a New You
Something Polished 